Improving Students` Speaking Skill Through Podcasting Guided Interview at Ninth Grade of MTs Sumber Payung Sumenep in Academic Year 2021/2022

Moh., Luddin (2022) Improving Students` Speaking Skill Through Podcasting Guided Interview at Ninth Grade of MTs Sumber Payung Sumenep in Academic Year 2021/2022. Undergraduate thesis, Islamic University of Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Key Words: Speaking skill, podcasting, guided interview

This research was about improving students’ speaking skill through podcasting guided interview at the IX grade U Pi (Unggulan Putri) of MTs Sumber Payung Sumenep. This study was done based on the problems found in English speaking skill at the ninth grade of MTs Sumber Payung Sumenep. Based on the data of preliminary study, it was found that the pre-test score was 66% with 41, 6 as the average score, that was a very low score. There were 10 students from 24 students passed the test. From those scores, it is noticed that most of those students entered the next grade of the English class with very limited speaking skill caused by some reasons, such as having less ability in speaking comprehension, having less level of confidence, and having less level of courage. Hence, the researcher decided to improve student’s speaking skill by using podcasting guided interview.
This research was conducted at class IX U Pi of MTs Sumber Payung Sumenep. This research was classified as Classroom Action Research (CAR) of Kemmish and Taggart which consist of four procedures, namely planning the action, implementing the action, observing and reflecting. In this research, the researcher conducted one cycle. The cycle applied on Mei 2022 which consisted of four meetings, three meetings to implement the action and one meeting to student’s speaking test. To collect the data, the researcher used the student’s speaking test pre-test and post test, observation, interview, and document review. The test was used to find out the improvement of students’ speaking skill after implementing the action.
In addition, after implementing the action, the result of the implementation of podcasting guided interview indicated that there were improvements of student’s speaking ability. It was proven by the data showed that 100% of students had passed the criteria of success with 122 as the average score. The research would success if there was 70% of students could pass the test score that was 65 based on the agreement of the researcher and the collaborator.

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